Jackie Cockle

Career

Jackie Cockle has participated in many stop frame productions during her 40-year-long career. In 1976 she became a part of Cosgrove Hall Films, where she produced and directed many shows for over 20 years, including:

Chorlton and the Wheelies (animator)

Cinderella (animator)

Cockleshell Bay (director)

A Tale Of Two Toads (director)

Oh, Mr. Toad (director)

The wind in the Willows (director)

Truckers

Noddy"s Toyland Adventures (British Broadcasting Corporation)

Oakie Doke

Brambly Hedge I

Animal Shelf

Rocky and the Dodos

In 1997 Cockle established Hot Animation as a subsidiary of HIT Entertainment, where she produced 130 ten-minutes episodes and 4 45 minutes specials of Bob the Builder.

In addition, from 1997 to 2006 she produced and was the supervising director of Brambly Hedge II, Rubbadubbers and Pingu.

Achievements

• She is the creator and creative producer of the pre-school animation Timmy Time, creative producer of Bob the Builder and Brambly Hedge, director of The Wind in the Willows and more Cockle, a graduate of the Manchester College of Art and Design, has won 3 Bafta awards: one in the best animation category for Bob the Builder 30 minute special (2002) and two in the pre-school animation for Timmy Time (2010, 2013) - a production of the Bristol based Aardman Animations.